Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips More Quotes by Wendell Phillips More Quotes From Wendell Phillips God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. Wendell Phillips guarantees justice giving The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. Wendell Phillips church college literature Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. Wendell Phillips tenure republic Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels! Wendell Phillips giving-up stars children The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. Wendell Phillips silence soul heart Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Wendell Phillips despair noble mind Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. Wendell Phillips discipline growth want It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. Wendell Phillips trifles greatness men Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye. Wendell Phillips real sex school Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. Wendell Phillips taken sleep men The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves. Wendell Phillips progress world moving What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. Wendell Phillips reading men war Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration. Wendell Phillips ignorance giving lying Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character. Wendell Phillips character men years Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips progress steps world Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. Wendell Phillips ability conquer You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. Wendell Phillips statesmen presidency given Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! Wendell Phillips fighting men history Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something. Wendell Phillips voice goes-on together We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. Wendell Phillips government morning men